Some soldiers find him and tell him that two outsiders have been foretold to be coming: a Deliverer and a Destroyer. Then through some magic he finds himself inside the city, and it is alive with the people he has populated it with. To entertain himself he builds a giant model city from things around the house: game pieces, books, blocks, bowls, etc. He has trouble adjusting at first, thrown into a world different from his previous life and abandoned by his sister while she is on her honeymoon. It initially appeared as a serial in The Strand Magazine, with illustrations by Spencer Pryse.PLOT:After Philip's older sister and sole family member Helen marries, he goes off to live with his new step sister Lucy. The Magic City is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, first published in 1910.
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